IF I CAN’T DANCE, I DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION
Josephine Sales
PLOT
Screening
5–7 June 2026
The summer programme of Edition X: Body as Memory begins with a three-day screening of PLOT by Josephine Sales, a work commissioned by If I Can't Dance as part of the collaborative research project access: practices and habits. The weekend presentation includes also the launch of the publication There's a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park by writer and curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, commissioned by our partners Askeaton Contemporary Arts (Limerick) as part of access: practices and habits.
PLOT
Josephine Sales
5–7 June
LAB111 (chapel), Amsterdam
PLOT (2026) is a site-specific video work made with a camera on wheels and produced in relation to the architecture of If I Can’t Dance’s home, the medical theatre of the Women’s Clinic of the former WG Hospital. Filmed in a single take, the camera moves from exterior to interior to exterior, attempting not to leave the same way it came in. Departure is understood as a condition of entry. Drawing on Amsterdam’s historic rope-and-block mechanisms used to move objects in and out of buildings, the work experiments with cinematic movement through vertical transfer, traversal, and suspension. PLOT is projected over three days at cinema LAB111, in the former chapel of the Pathological Anatomy Lab of the WG Hospital.
A written contribution by Taylor LeMelle will be made available on site.
PLOT is accompanied by Car, an artwork by Jason Hirata that organizes transportation for visitors departing the screening, taking them to a destination of their choosing. Car will fulfil as many rides as possible until the spending limit is reached.
There's a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park
Sunday 7 June, 13–15hr
LAB111 (chapel), Amsterdam
As part of the weekend presentation of PLOT by Josephine Sales, the publication There's a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park by writer and curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais will be launched on Sunday 7 June, with a conversation between Ní Fheorais, artist, writer and musician Rouzbeh Shadpey, and artist Josephine Sales. As multinational corporation revenues soar, state bodies tightly regulate access to healthcare. Ní Fheorais investigates the land-use techniques, landscape aesthetics and architecture of MedTech as an inheritance of the colonial regime of the British Empire and dogma of the Catholic Church that create these conditions. Through her account of the barriers encountered in accessing prosthetic care, it becomes evident that infrastructure plays a crucial role in shaping the politics of healthcare, and how access to medical technologies is managed.
Please note that these events take place at the the chapel of cinema LAB111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam.
The chapel is located on the lower level of LAB111.
A step-free, wheelchair accessible entrance is available. This entrance is located at the Nicolaas Beetsstraat.
All-gender bathrooms, including a single stall wheelchair accessible bathroom, are located on the same floor as the chapel.
Seating is available for both the film screenings and the book launch.
CART captioning (English) is available for the book launch.
Visitors are invited to e-mail office@ificantdance.org in advance to reserve Car within Amsterdam. If I Can’t Dance encourages visitors with transportation access needs to take advantage of this offering. Rides with wheelchair accessible vans require 48 hours advance booking.
PLOT is commissioned by If I Can’t Dance as part of access: practices and habits, an artistic research programme in collaboration with Askeaton Contemporary Arts (Limerick) and Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao). There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park is commissioned as part of this programme by Askeaton Contemporary Arts. Access: practices and habits is co-funded by the European Union.
Image caption: Josephine Sales, PLOT (a speculative image-object), 2026
[Visual Description: An illuminated green sign using the form of an emergency EXIT sign displays the word “PLOT” in bold uppercase lettering alongside a directional arrow.]
